An American sunrise : poems / Joy Harjo.
"A nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American poet laureate of the United States."--Back cover.
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New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Map of the Trail of Tears
- Break My Heart
- My grandfather Monahwee
- Exile of Memory
- Granddaughters
- The Fight
- Directions to You
- Seven Generations
- In 1990 a congress
- Weapons,
- The Story Wheel
- Once I looked at the moon
- Washing My Mother's Body
- There is a map
- Rising and Falling
- The Road to Disappearance
- Mama and Papa Have the Going Home Shiprock Blues
- My great-grandfather Monahwee
- How to Write a Poem in a Time of War
- Mvskoke Mourning Song
- First Morning
- Singing Everything
- Falling from the Night Sky
- Our knowledge is based
- For Earth's Grandsons
- Running
- A Refuge in the Smallest of Places
- I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
- Bourbon and Blues
- My Great-Aunt Ella Monahwee Jacobs's Testimony
- Road
- The Southeast was covered
- Desire's Dog
- Dawning
- Honoring
- My Man's Feet
- "I Wonder What You Are Thinking,"
- For Those Who Would Govern
- Rabbit Invents the Saxophone
- When Adolfe Sax patented
- Let There Be No Regrets
- Advice for Countries, Advanced, Developing and Falling
- Tobacco Origin Story
- My aunt Lois Harjo told me
- Redbird Love
- We follow the DNA spiral of stories
- Becoming Seventy
- Beyond
- Ren-Toh-Pvrv
- Memory Sack
- Every night
- Cehotosakvtes
- One March
- By the Way
- When we made it down last year
- Welcoming Song
- An American Sunrise
- Bless This Land
- Acknowledgements.